Enjoy yourself as much as you like, if only you keep from sin.
St. John Bosco

Friday, November 30, 2007

Friday 11/30

Well, I've been up since 4 a.m. Had very nice time with R though!

H and W got up early and went to teen mass at 6:15 a.m. Came home for a bit. H is really working on Bach's Minuet in G Major. Then they were off for a special Chem lab this a.m. They are doing Chemistry ALL morning.

Let the others wake up when they wanted. S woke up, showered and is now playing video games downstairs.

J was supposed to have his St. George club today, but for some reason it was cancelled. He was very bummed. He slept in and then started reading The Restaurant at teh End of the Universe. Then he decided to haul the little tv and an old game system upstairs to his room to play. He's been doing that.

B woke up and told me all about Little House of the Prairie that she was listening to before she fell asleep. I gave her some English muffins for breakfast. She is upstairs watching J play.

I am hoping we'll do the next installment of the T3 Bible study today. I know I'll need to take a nap and I should be doing something more constructive than putzing around the internet. I did manage to take a shower. I think I need another cup of tea!

B got out a big marble run machine like thing that she is assembling in the dining room. She wants me to help but I'm too sleepy. J is at the piano again.

4:26p.m. Well, we had a very sleepy, low keyed day. We did watch the next installment in T3 which was excellent. I read a bit of Royal Escape and enjoyed it. I almost took a nap but S kept waking me up just as I'd drift off. Late a.m. we watched Mr Roger's Neighborhood and the Reading Rainbow. RR was about family history which sent me on a google search about Grandfather and S. Gompers which was fun. H and W came home and I talked to them about it. Then we watched the Bible thing. H went to hand deliver the ski trip registration and check because I completely forgot about it and then realized today was the deadline. W is playing Assassins Creed. J is playing some robot game on the gamecube. B went to the neighbor's to play. S is bored and hungry and watching Arthur.

10th Grade - Catholic Life Community, A Beka Biology, Saxon Algebra II and Jacobs Geometry, New First Steps in Latin/Lingua Latina, The History of the Church, St. Augustine's Confessions, Augustine Came to Kent, William the Conqueror by Belloc, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot, St. Francis of Assisi by Chesterton, The Quiet Light by de Wohl, Dante's Inferno, Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, Lepanto by Chesterton, Hamlet by Shakespeare

A Brief Introduction

My husband, Rick and I have been married for almost 22 years. We are Catholic (well, Rick is Jewish!) and love living the homeschooling lifestyle. The kids have all been diagnosed with LDs when it comes to reading and writing. These turned out to simply mean we bloom a little later than other kids do in these subjects. No big deal. But I am a big fan of vision therapy as it has helped my kids so much!

We've been pretty relaxed these past few years, most relaxed in the youngest years and gradually getting more formal as we enter high school and design our own college prep plans. This year we are starting out more formal for 6th grade. My son has expressed a desire to go to school next year in 7th grade. So to help prepare him for that he wanted to to enroll in Kolbe's homeschool program to get used to taking tests, writing more and keeping a tighter schedule. The 4th grader is following suit, just because they are used to doing much the same thing each day.

My 15 yo wants to go to college and is interested in the fields of economics, business and finance, computers and game design.

I have graduated two children from homeschool already! My oldest daughter, 19, is starting her second year at the University of Dallas, majoring in Politics. My oldest son, 18, plans to study and take CLEP tests using CollegePlus, find a parttime job, and practice and prepare for his winter audition for a music conservatory. He aspires to be a composer and performer.

So we are down to homeschooling three kids this year, 2010-2011 - a 10th grader, a 6th grader and a 3rd/4th grader. This will be our 14th year of homeschooling!